Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In theology, the doctrine, held by Augustinians and by many Calvinists, that God planned the creation, permitted the fall, elected a chosen number, planned their redemption, and suffered the remainder to be eternally punished.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Theor.) The doctrine, belief, or principles of the Infralapsarians.
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- noun theology A doctrine held by certain
Calvinists holding that, while the fall of man was inevitable, the identities of theelect and thereprobate were not known until after the fall.
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Examples
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Theologically this position is known as "infralapsarianism."
Michael Ruse: Calvin College and Original Sin Michael Ruse 2010
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By contrast, Calvin taught that God permitted the fall, not that He foreordained it—i.e., infralapsarianism.
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And there are still others -- whether it is infralapsarianism or supralapsarianism or neither that is the truth, whether Christ died for everyone or only for the elect, just what and when the millennium will be -- on which scriptural teaching is less plain yet.
Warranted Christian Belief 1932- 2000
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Having gone thus far, Van Os proceeded to deny a form of infralapsarianism, which was termed "justification from eternity."
History of Rationalism Embracing a Survey of the Present State of Protestant Theology 1868
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